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Podcast 279: Age-specific data do better than age-adjusted data in revealing health inequities
Clinical Conversations
09/27/21 • 6 min
Kiarri Kershaw has written a simple letter in JACC — the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The letter conveys a strong message: health inequities don’t act uniformly across one’s lifetime. Her examination of Black versus white mortality from all causes and from cardiovascular causes with the use of age-specific data shows places in [...]
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Podcast 283: More data — this time from the U.K. — about post-Covid vaccination
Clinical Conversations
02/22/22 • 10 min
You want more evidence that post-recovery vaccination against Covid-19 reinfection helps? Here is a careful study from the U.K. that followed some 35,000 health care workers — initially without symptoms — in over 100 institutions there. Starting in June 2020 the SIREN study tested these people regularly, with blood sampling every month and nasal swabs [...]
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Clinical Conversations
03/11/22 • 23 min
Gastroesophageal reflux, or GERD, was the focus of a revised set of guidelines issued in January in the American Journal of Gastroenterology. Given the frequency of that condition in primary care clinics, internist and NEJM Journal Watch editor-in-chief Allan Brett proposed a discussion about the practical application of these guidelines with David Bjorkman. Dr. Bjorkman, [...]
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Clinical Conversations
03/21/22 • 19 min
Dr. Natalia Shevchuk (pictured above) treats substance use disorders in Ukraine’s Donetsk region. Her face is candlelit because her town is under curfew, and people aren’t allowed to put on their room lights (if they have electricity) in the hours of darkness, lest Russian bombardments use the lights as guides. She talked with Dr. Ali Raja [...]
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Clinical Conversations
04/21/22 • 15 min
Spend 15 minutes with Dr. Natalia Shevchuk, whom we interviewed by candlelight last month. She is sheltering in the Odessa region now, having left the Donetsk area. This time, she relates how she lost a colleague in Russia’s attack on the Kramatorsk railway station and found another she’d feared lost in Mariupol. She told us that [...]
The post Podcast 288: Following up with a Ukrainian narcologist first appeared on Clinical Conversations.Podcast 289: Saline versus balanced crystalloids — what to choose
Clinical Conversations
05/04/22 • 16 min
Saline or balanced crystalloids? The question of which resuscitation fluid to use in clinical practice seems to have been settled by recent research findings — or at least settled in favor of balanced crystalloids. But wait, our guests see slight differences that may affect your choice. Patricia Kritek practices critical care medicine at the University of [...]
The post Podcast 289: Saline versus balanced crystalloids — what to choose first appeared on Clinical Conversations.Podcast 291: Unionized nursing homes had lower mortality during Covid-19
Clinical Conversations
05/24/22 • 13 min
In the early waves of the Covid-19 pandemic why did patients in unionized nursing homes, have a roughly 10% lower rate of mortality than those in non-unionized ones? A report in Health Affairs tries to sort out the possible reasons. Listen to our 13-minute interview, which raises the question: Should you send your patients to non-unionized facilities? [...]
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Clinical Conversations
07/28/22 • 12 min
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THE USUAL AUDIO FILE IS AVAILABLE BELOW
Steven Cummings has co-written a take-no-prisoners editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. The topic? Vitamin D supplements. The conclusion? “...providers should stop screening for 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels or recommending vitamin D supplements, and people should stop taking vitamin D supplements to prevent major diseases or extend life.”
Dr. Cummings was commenting on research findings from the VITAL trial, also published in the journal, showing no fracture-lowering benefits of the supplements.
Allan Brett interviews Cummings to get the details on his pronouncement, and it takes just 13 minutes to dismiss vitamin D (which, by the way, is not a vitamin at all).
NEJM presentation of VITAL results
The post Podcast 297: Forget about all that vitamin D testing!! first appeared on Clinical Conversations.Podcast 301: Monkeypox — what to look for, how to treat
Clinical Conversations
08/19/22 • 17 min
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This time, we look to New York for guidance on recognizing and treating monkeypox.
Dr. Eric Meyerowitz of Montefiore and Dr. Stephen Baum of Einstein will lead you through the monkeypox thicket in a 17-minute chat.
Included below is information for patients as well as links to some key articles of interest to clinicians.
LINKS:
For patients: Dr. Barry Zingman’s “Monkeypox — What you need to know”
For clinicians:
- NEJM article on monkeypox in 16 countries
- NEJM Case Records of the Mass. General Hospital on the state’s first case
- Stephen Baum’s summary of a paper in Emerging Infectious Diseases describing viral persistence on fomites
Podcast 277: Race and clinical equity — know your patients — a conversation with Karen Dorsey Sheares
Clinical Conversations
04/26/21 • 20 min
Dr. Sheares talks about her experience with inequities. She believes that clinicians should aspire to be students of their patients as well as of the pathophysiology of the diseases their patients present with. Listen in. Running time: 20 minutes
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How many episodes does Clinical Conversations have?
Clinical Conversations currently has 58 episodes available.
What topics does Clinical Conversations cover?
The podcast is about Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Medicine, Podcasts and Science.
What is the most popular episode on Clinical Conversations?
The episode title 'Podcast 267: Acute kidney injury in COVID-19 — how one New York system dealt with it' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Clinical Conversations?
The average episode length on Clinical Conversations is 17 minutes.
How often are episodes of Clinical Conversations released?
Episodes of Clinical Conversations are typically released every 8 days, 5 hours.
When was the first episode of Clinical Conversations?
The first episode of Clinical Conversations was released on Nov 28, 2019.
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